rjtrinka

50 laptops in Anaheim, CA and I got 2 !!

I will say this year was the best for having conversations and goodtimes with the people waiting outside the store. Met some really nice people at Wal Mart. Now for the ugly side of that read my post in the "Naked Truth" thread about what happened inside my Wal Mart.

Here's another instance of the "fun" that was had at Wal Mart this morning. I was number 5 inline outside the store in Anaheim, CA, I got there at 9 pm Thanksgiving night (there's a CompUSA in the same center so I hit them at midnight while my son waiting in the Wal Mart line. I won't bother with all the details of the line cutters and other fun things outside. Lets just say the first 10 of us in line built a barricade around the door using store carts and some store benchs. It really didn't stop the cutters too much. My store had 50 laptops and they were behind the counter in sporting goods. When the doors opened the rush was on, lol. My son runs faster them me so he was in line at sporting goods first and I was 5th. Soon there were 100's of people pushing aroung the counter yelling that they were next. Those of us in front did a pretty good job of sorting that out, but one line cutter lady got into it with another lady who was right behind me and bit her on the arm !!! I know someone called the police. They started to make us pay for the latptops in sporting goods, but just as I was the next in line a manager walks behined the counter, and without saying a word to anyone, just starts handing out (in some cases throwing) the laptops to anyone close. It was a near riot at that point!!! The clerk and the register just looked at me with this astonished look and quickly grabbed a laptop and handed it to me. My son and I got the heck out of there in a hurry. It was a zoo just trying to get to the front of the store to check out. NEVER AGAIN will I go to Wal Mart on Black Friday !!!!

I know that can be done, but I don't need another charger around the house. The ease of plugging the camera into the dock to charge it and transfer pictures at the same time is the best way to go. :)

The HP E317 camera at WM is a brand new model so there really isn't that much information out about it yet. The one issue I have with it is that it runs on normal 'AA' batteries, not rechargables. I had an older HP a couple of years ago and it really ate up the batteries. Try and find a model that has rechargables if possible. Of the camera's that are listed so far, the Kodak Z760 at Wal Mart for $199 is a real good deal, because it also comes with a dock.

Regarding the rearrainged Best Buy stores, there is an interesting article in todays Wall St. Journal. Best Buy is dividing its customers into two groups, Angels and Devils. Based on the article I would say that most of us that post and read at Gottadeal would fall into the Devils category. The company says they are remodeling target stores and stocking them with items that will sell to the Angel buyers in that stores area. Based on this I wonder how good their BF sales will be this year.